Views and experiences of teachers and pupils according to group teaching forms

Group learning represents an important part of creating individual because with group work pupils not only gain education, they also get educational values, they develop important life skills, such as mutual help, communication, collaboration, collusion and respect of diversity of opinions and individuals. I was interested in teachers' experience and views on group teaching form. To get a more comprehensive view I completed the teachers' opinions in some aspects with students' views on group learning form. In the theoretical part we get acquainted with the beginnings of group learning form, the characteristics of group work at school, advantages and disadvantages of the group work and with collaborative learning. In the empirical part I wanted to check the theoretical platform with the specific experiences of teachers. In a survey they provided their views on group learning form and some aspects were also defined by students through the interview. The research shows, that teachers still don't apply group teaching form often enough in spite of numerous advantages recognised by both, teachers and students. Majority of teaching process is still implemented by a frontal teaching form. However, teachers and students admit that group learning/teaching form is very popular among students who like working in groups. Teachers mostly form groups with a small number of students, the roles in groups are determined by students themselves. Teachers' experience showed that group teaching form was suitable for all stages of teaching process, especially for training and repeating